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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many houses in Medfield, Massachusetts, were destroyed by Native Americans during King Philip's War in 1675?
(a) 25.
(b) 27.
(c) 32.
(d) 40.

2. Who was fiercely competitive with William Hubbard and even campaigned to discredit Hubbard's account of the war?
(a) William Hubbard.
(b) Richard Callicot.
(c) Increase Mather.
(d) John Sassamon.

3. In the Prologue, the author describes King Philip's War as being almost over in what year?
(a) 1616.
(b) 1675.
(c) 1676.
(d) 1648.

4. How many accounts of King Philip's War represent several types of writing aimed at different audiences, according to the author in Part One, Language, Chapter 2, The Story of It Printed?
(a) 12.
(b) 21.
(c) 10.
(d) 5.

5. According to the author, many colonists found it hard to write about the war, such as what individual who felt totally devastated by his experience of the burning of Springfield?
(a) John Pynchon.
(b) John Alderman.
(c) William Hubbard.
(d) Richard Callicot.

6. Where was Nathaniel Saltonstall born?
(a) New York, NY.
(b) Ipswich, MA.
(c) Cambridge, MA.
(d) Boston, MA.

7. Nathaniel Saltonstall was selected as a judge for what specific court responsible for the trial and sentence of people for the crime of witchcraft in Massachusetts during the Salem Witch Trials?
(a) Court of Salem, Massachusetts.
(b) Court of Franklin and Boston.
(c) Court of Anderson and Overlay.
(d) Court of Oyer and Terminer.

8. Medfield, Massachusetts, was first settled in what year?
(a) 1649.
(b) 1677.
(c) 1654.
(d) 1616.

9. When did Hugo Grotius die?
(a) 1677.
(b) 1645.
(c) 1672.
(d) 1642.

10. John Sassamon's family died during the smallpox epidemic of what year?
(a) 1664.
(b) 1633.
(c) 1612.
(d) 1652.

11. When was John Eliot born?
(a) 1612.
(b) 1641.
(c) 1604.
(d) 1595.

12. King Philip's War began in June of what year?
(a) 1648.
(b) 1676.
(c) 1639.
(d) 1675.

13. At what age did Hugo Grotius publish his first book?
(a) 19.
(b) 16.
(c) 26.
(d) 22.

14. What was a Native American tribe formerly inhabiting western Massachusetts, especially around the confluence of the Deerfield and Connecticut Rivers in Franklin County?
(a) The Nipmuc tribe.
(b) The Pocomtuc tribe.
(c) The Narragansett tribe.
(d) The Mohegan tribe.

15. William Hubbard was the pastor of the Congregational church located where?
(a) Salem, MA.
(b) Ipswich, MA.
(c) Boston, MA.
(d) New York, NY.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the book A Relation of the Troubles which Have Hapned in New-England by Reason of the Indians There from the Year 1614 to the Year 1675 published?

2. Increase Mather was the youngest of how many brothers?

3. What, according to the author, is in many ways a simple tool and is often controlled by the powerful, because it can be used to change minds?

4. Metacomet was a war chief or sachem of what Indian tribe?

5. Passaconaway was a powerful medicine man and sachem of what tribe?

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